I think turning school safety and community resolve into a logo and hashtag is inappropriate. It's an oversimplified, quick stroke of tone deafness for a community that is, and should still be, in shock.

When the shock wears off, I want my community to know where I stand: beside my daughters' teachers as a volunteer, at the kitchen table checking homework, and in the voting booth checking boxes for gun-sense candidates.

Violence and threats of violence should not be commercialized or neatly packaged with a logo and hashtag. Let them be exactly what they are: horrifying, messy and complex. Then maybe we'll spend fewer hours on our phones agreeing with our Facebook friends and more time face-to-face respectfully debating solutions that prevent a tragic hashtag, tomorrow. #JohnstonIsStrongWithoutTheHashtag